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If you've done the therapy, read the books, and still wake up wondering why nothing has actually changed — this is where you start.

In this trailer for The Emotional Truth, Lesley Turner introduces the podcast built for the midlife woman who is done being the most self-aware stuck person in the room. You'll hear who this show is for, what somatic and intuitive pattern work actually looks like, and why understanding your patterns and getting out of them are two completely different things.

If your nervous system has been running the show since 1987, it might be time to find out what's actually underneath it.

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And if you're ready to go deeper, join the Intuitive Circle at lesleyturner.ca — live, body-based pattern work twice a month.

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You hit the goal. You waited for the feeling. Something else showed up instead — and it wasn't gratitude. It was a quiet question: did I do this wrong?

Jenna Kutcher wrote something recently that hit a nerve for thousands of women. Her Substack essay The Honey Isn't The Point named the pivot so many high-achieving women are making right now — away from the hustle, toward the garden, the slower life, the thing that actually feels like theirs. And she got it beautifully right.

What she didn't get to — because it's not her lens — is why we couldn't slow down in the first place. The body-based, somatic healing piece. The pattern underneath the drive that no amount of awareness alone can touch.

In this episode we go there. Why the hustle was never really about ambition. Where the pattern actually came from. And why you can pivot to the slower life and still find yourself optimizing it — hustling in a different costume — if you haven't looked at what's underneath.

This is somatic coaching meets pattern work meets the conversation Jenna started and didn't finish.

🔗 Read Jenna's essay
🔗 Workshop replay — If I Rest I'll Lose Everything ($37)
🔗 The Intuitive Circle

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Every woman I've worked with has tried something that worked - until it didn't.
A diet, a program, a medication. The number moved. The clothes fit differently. And then it plateaued, or she stopped, and within weeks she was back where she started wondering what was wrong with her.

Nothing was wrong with her. The pattern that was driving the behaviour was never part of the conversation.

In this episode I'm talking about what the GLP-1 conversation is missing - and its not a supplement protocol or a meal plan. It's the pattern underneath the noise. Where it came from, and why discipline alone will never be strong than something that's been running since you were 7 years old.

This isn't an episode against GLP-1. It's the conversation that needs to happen alongside it.

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Elaine Timms built a Pinterest strategy business that grew to 100K sessions/month, sold a blog for five figures, and has spent almost eight years helping entrepreneurs get their content working long after they hit publish. She's also someone who spent years in fight-or-flight without knowing it — outsmarting everything, including herself.

In this conversation, Elaine and I talk about what actually shifted when she stopped following everyone else's rules — in her business, her body, and her creative life. We get into the energy over strategy philosophy she's built her work around (and where that phrase actually came from — credit to Chelsea Schreiner), why Pinterest might be the most nervous-system-friendly platform you're not using, and the fiction writing project that's been coming to her through her dreams.

This one's for the business owner who's doing everything right and still wondering why something feels off.

What we cover:

• What "energy over strategy" looks like in a real business decision
• Why slow growth isn't failure — it's a nervous system choice
• The pattern work that shifted Elaine's visibility wound
• Journaling: what to do with it after you write it
• How Elaine is merging her data brain with her creative one
• The fiction writing project she's finally giving herself permission to pursue

Work with Elaine -

elainetimms.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/elaine-timms/

https://www.instagram.com/elainetimmscreative/

https://elainetimms.kit.com/37b6e3c17c - Pinterest audit checklist

https://elainetimms.com/pinterest-marketing-strategy-guide-for-beginners/ - Pinterest strategy guide

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You've been telling yourself you're fine. Your shoulders tell a different story.

Five months ago I noticed something. I assessed it - clinically, carefully - and decided it could wait. What followed was a mammogram, a biopsy, a titanium clip, and eventually a day surgery where I showed up in a brown hospital robe to the worst TOGA party in history!
This isn't a medical story. It's a nervous system one.

What does the body hold when the mind has decided it's probably nothing?
Also: a brief but necessary correction about HPV that someone out there needs to hear.

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If you've tried and quit every workout routine you've ever started, this isn't a discipline problem. It's a nervous system problem.

I share the honest story of every movement format that didn't work for my body - including a spin class that ended disgustingly - and what I finally figured out about why. We get into what cortisol actually does, the difference between discomfort that grows you and discomfort that drains you, and why the thing that finally stuck looks nothing like what the fitness industry told me it should.

Softness isn't weakness. It's strategy.

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There are incredible posts about the eldest daughter all over social media. They talk aobut burnout, resentment, the productivity that never stops. They're not wrong. But they're not the full story either. The wound isn't just being asked to do too much - it's that existing without function started to feel like disappearing. This episode goes deeper than the content you've already seen.
And if you want to go all the way in, the Put Her Down audio series is linked here.

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Britt Holmes built a business, got knocked sideways by life, and came back - not the same way, but more herself. We talk about business, family, ADHD, and what it actually looks like to rebuild after the kind of hard that doesn't have a clean narrative.

Britt is an ads and media specialist, founder of Merit Media and Founders Advisory, and one of the most honest people I know. This one goes places.

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@brittholmeslive and @meritmediainc

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#adsmanagement #divorce #singleparent #adhd #businessoperations #somatictherapy #emotionalhealth #nervoussystemregulation

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